What types of magic would fall under these?

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1. violet says:

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   wow- a great idea!
   but youve partly given yourself the answer in your question- eg- mental- anything mental; mind control- seeing what someone else is thiking, or having them think what you want them to.
   some things cross over between catagories- healing could be making another calmer- but this could also fall under mental powers.
   defensive again- would be mental and healing, as it could be done with the mind, or defensive and physical, as it could be moving or controlling your physical environment with your mind, and illusio would be physical, mental, and defensive.
   either define your catagoes more sharply, or merge a couple together- otherwise there might be confusion for your readers as to where one thing ends, and another begins.

   you could pair the things up easily already, or choose two which contrast.

   also think what the reason would be, and how it’d work-
   eg- illusion- would everyone see it, or just the person you want to- can you choose whether its one or more people, or can it only be everyone seeing the same thing simultaniously? and would it be just an object looks like something else, or would it take on that form for real, or be invisible only? and for how long… you could have the powers different in each person, or develop with their practise- it’ll last only for a few minutes in a chid, for eternity with a master.

   defensive and illusion would be the most interesting for me, as its fighting other people, and psychological trickery. depends how nasty/nice you want to be – you could have the ability to give people fits if they annoy or threten you, or just make them sudedntly remember they should be doing something else, and rush off! it doesnt have to be blowing peoples heads apart with thoughts!

   also give some thought to policing of these powers, and who would set the standards- if some groups have such abilaties, tehy wont all want to use it for good.
   its explored really well in the x-men.
2. King says:

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   1.Mental=Telekinisis
   2.Physical=Super Strength
   3.Illusion=Making people see horrible things that will happen to them, but really it won’t.
   4.Outer-World Magic= Controling the moon to control the water’s tides.
   5.Healing=Giving people life, or in a dark sense taking someone’s life to save someone else.
   6.Defensive=Being able to make sheilds sprout from anywhere on your body(that would be cool).
3. <~Navin~> says:

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   Mental, Healing, and Defensive goes under monk or priest magik. Outworld and illusion would be Necromancers, mesmuriser, and dark magiks.
4. Mrs. of course Potter says:

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   mental: telekinesis or mind reading
   physical: super strength or super speed
   all i could come up with
5. Miss Clock says:

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   1.) Mental – Telepathy, pyrokinetic (the ability to set things on fire with your mind) , telekinetic (moving things with your mind), manipulating memories, mind reading, psychic, and manipulating dreams…?

   2.) Physical – Accelerated speed, increased strength, changed eyesight, transmogrification (pretty much the ability to completely change a physical object).

   3.) Illusion – Creating illusory things that only one person or as many as you’d want, to see, but I think that this would fall under "mental".

   4.) Outer-World Magic – Accelerating time to the point that someone’s death occurs, slowing down time to heal injuries, manipulating gravity (i.e. increasing the gravity of an object, and forcing them down, or taking away the gravity of an object and forcing them to float.)

   5.) Healing – The ability to completely revive a person, the ability to fix a broken limb, maybe slowing down time could count, the cancellation of another ability such as the revival of memories if someone’s memories had been manipulated, or the person had amnesia, but again, this might go in "mental".

   6.) Defensive – Generating shields, force-fields, again, the ability to cancel out other abilities.

   Sorry if I misunderstood anything, but good luck with your story! =]